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Fun story: I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc. I manually reviewed every submission and unfortunately often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included. Almost everyone would (understandably!) argue their case, but as volume increased I couldn't afford to go into a deep argument with every single founder. T…
Fun story: I built BetaList 16 years ago which was one of the first "product discovery" platforms. Years before Product Hunt, etc. I manually reviewed every submission and unfortunately often I had to tell founders that their startup didn't qualify to be included. Almost everyone would (understandably!) argue their case, but as volume increased I couldn't afford to go into a deep argument with every single founder. T…
While i appreciate that there are websites where you can list your website, compiling them in a publicly available list is a recipe for spam. Rather than post links to your websites on these websites, you need to share your website with your community. Imagine never using HN and then posting a show HN. You'll probably quickly get your domain banned. When you are part of a website community, it's much easier to unders…
why would I get banned for showing my stuff?
Yahoo has its moment. Maybe this is new to folks not being active in the internet during the 90th, but essentially search engines were partly simply link catalogs, curated mostly like Yahoo, CompuServe, AOL. Excite, Lycos. Web rings were a thing, stumbledupon, delicious - nothing new here. Even blog listings were a thing with technorati. And remember Digg?
Digg relaunched and then reunlaunched.
I have a new startup, it's been going pretty poorly. I think it serves a great market and could be useful if it could get in front of the right people. The problem with a lot of these sites is they won't allow you to shill and the ones that do require lengthy sign up processes or money. I tried to post to alternativeto but I had to wait 7 days! Because my account was too new. I considered AdWords but again I'd be pay…
Since search engines are going to be replaced by AI, is there now potential for old school hand curated web directories like we had in the late 1900s to surface again? Lists of websites hand curated by categories and topics, and even certified to have AI free content, could be cool.
Very cool! FYI, DesignerNews is dead.